Rather impressive don't you think?
Here they are standing next to a standard size tractor.
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Usksider
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- 2008-03-31 @ 13:16:45
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la_spice
- 2008-03-31 @ 13:29:49
I know! I was very disappointed when I realised it was nearly all automated!
That said there is still a lot of backbreaking manual work involved. Just now the workers are out there for hours on end tying up the vines and tightening the wire supports etc.-
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- 2008-03-31 @ 14:00:12
It is a labour intensive industry isn't it?
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la_spice
- 2008-03-31 @ 14:13:58
Yes very!
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Usksider
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- 2008-03-31 @ 14:18:09
Got to give all those peasants something to do...
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la_spice
- 2008-03-31 @ 14:22:29
The thing is they all live to a good old age!
As my Mum would say "hard work never harmed anybody". I doubt if the Health & Safety Executive would wholely agree with her! 
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Usksider
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- 2008-03-31 @ 17:59:20
I always put it down to a good fatty diet and plenty of those stinky French fags myself.
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la_spice
- 2008-03-31 @ 18:03:33
You've been peeping in my shopping bag again!
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Usksider
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- 2008-03-31 @ 18:05:31
Who? What? Me???
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la_spice
- 2008-03-31 @ 19:06:02
Such innocence!
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Usksider
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- 2008-03-31 @ 19:11:24
Absolutely.
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jenray
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- 2008-03-31 @ 15:17:17
That's not what I was hoping to see HLOL...big hugs...now howzabout some real life wine pickers...?
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Arnica
- 2008-03-31 @ 15:45:36
I knew I'd catch someone but didn't, for one minute, think it would be you!!!
I'll have to see what I can do come harvest!
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jenray
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- 2008-03-31 @ 16:23:21
HLOL...why not? I like six packs but not on dancers...on real men...
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Arnica
- 2008-03-31 @ 17:21:00
That's some challenge for me! Find some grape pickers with six packs!
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- 2008-04-01 @ 01:33:04
Those machines pick the grapes off the vines??? Damn! There goes the illusion of hand-pickers picking the grapes. xxxx
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Arnica
- 2008-04-01 @ 07:27:58
Yes - disappointing isn't it!
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Takes all the romance out of it though, doesn't it?